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Finland’s center-right government has survived a no-confidence motion from three opposition parties over two ministers from the right-wing populist Finns Party at the center of a racism scandal that has rocked the Nordic country

The policy is the right-wing coalition government answer to a series of discrimination scandals .

Finland's conservative National Coalition, winner of this month's parliamentary election, said on Thursday it hopes to form a majority government together with the eurosceptic, anti-immigration Finns Party and two smaller groups.

The results of Finland’s parliamentary elections signal a tumultuous period ahead. This was to a certain degree foreseen by pre-election polls, which indicated that prime minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) was about to lose to the opposition conservative National Coalition Party (Kok), led by Petteri Orpo.

Petteri Orpo’s NCP pushes party of predecessor Sanna Marin into third place in tight election

The young prime minister’s party finished third in the standings

One of Europe's youngest leaders, Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, looks to have lost her seat in the country's election.

Marin says ‘democracy is always a wonderful thing’ as her Social Democrats come third behind rightwing NCP and nationalist Finns parties

Ms Marin’s Social Democrats are fighting to secure a second term in power